5 Hip-Hop Singles To Watch This Fall On The Billboard Hot 100

With the year's Song Of The Summer already determined by Billboard--and strategically countered by YouTube--the coming autumn portends the imminent shedding of warm weather singles in favor of new ones to populate the colder months.

While smashes by Cardi B and Drake may endure on the Hot 100 into the start of holiday season, they’ll be joined there by fresher hits from both newcomers and veterans alike. Given hip-hop’s dominance of and prominence on Billboard’s most important multi-metric chart, several of those slots will assuredly go to singles by artists operating in the genre.

We’ve already seen some early contenders break through earlier this month, including Harlem rapper Sheck Wes’ “Mo Bamba” and Donald Glover's latest Childish Gambino single "Feeling Like Summer." Here are another five likely songs to keep an eye out for this fall on the Billboard Hot 100.

Flipp Dinero, "Leave Me Alone"

A very recent signee to DJ Khaled's We The Best imprint at Epic Records, the Cinematic Music Group rapper from Brooklyn has been one to watch for a minute now. A strong performer on streaming platforms in recent weeks, his breathy single "Leave Me Alone" benefits from a major label boost with the most adds at rhythmic radio, picked up at 23 stations to become this week's most added song. Though it will take until next week's refresh for that to register on Billboard's Rhythmic Songs chart, the track currently holds the No. 13 slot on Bubbling Under Hot 100. With nearly 3 million and1.15 million domestic plays at Spotify and SoundCloud respectively in this just-wrapped Billboard qualifying frame, "Leave Me Alone" could conceivably hit the Hot 100 before month's end.

Jesus Honcho, "Infatuated"

Another Cinematic Music Group prospect from New York, Jesus Honcho is on that heartbreaker tip right now. With a dreamy video game referencing beat and Rae Sremmurd-esque vocals, "Infatuated" first dropped back in March, but scored a re-up in July with its inclusion on his 7 Vibez EP. Presently clocking nearly 700,000 weekly SoundCloud streams in the U.S., it's proven one of the service's most popular songs of late. According to Next Big Sound, he's received "above expected" engagement at Pandora as well over the past month. In late August, tastemaking brand Lyrical Lemonade added "Infatuated" to its Hot 25 playlist, which boasts more than 28,000 followers at Spotify. Though it may take longer for him to cross over than his indie labelmate's "Leave Me Alone," Jesus Honcho's rise shouldn't be ignored.

Lil Mosey, "Noticed"

Located some 13 miles north of Seattle, WA, Mountlake Terrace isn't exactly known as a hip-hop hotbed, something that high school student and up-and-coming rapper Lil Mosey will freely admit. Still, geography hasn't stopped his sung-rap hybrid "Noticed" from gaining momentum quickly. Though some might balk at the presence of lean in the song's lyrics, cover art and video, it's par for the course with the musical tastes of similarly young listeners and reflects his earlier viral single "Pull Up." Over the past 7 days, "Noticed" logged a million SoundCloud streams in the U.S., making it the 12th most played track in this territory. It's doing big numbers domestically at Spotify too, accumulating close to 4 million plays there in the same time frame.

Tyga, "SWISH"

The follow-up single to his unexpectedly huge "Taste" with Migos' Offset, this one from the former Young Money Entertainment / Cash Money Records act has been bouncing around the Bubbling Under Hot 100 chart for 6 weeks now, presently at No. 13. If Eminem hadn't dropped his Kamikaze surprise last week, which claimed 11% of the available Hot 100 positions, "SWISH" might have finally cracked that ceiling or come very close. For now, it's holding strong with hundreds of thousands of daily Spotify plays in the U.S., with a total of over 2.6 million in the last 7 days. Tyga has his fair share of Hot 100 charting singles already, including his signature Top 10 hit "Rack City."

YNW Melly, "Murder On My Mind"

Making its Bubbling Under Hot 100 debut this week at No. 23, this Florida rapper's criminal minded confessional single first dropped at streaming platforms nearly a year ago. Its inclusion on YNW Melly's I Am You full-length last month came timed with the premiere of the viral song's dark and graphic video, which has logged more than 17 million plays in less than a month and a half. Just last week, Spotify added "Murder On My Mind" to its Most Necessary playlist, which has over 1.8 million followers, as well as simultaneously to its popular Off The Strength and The Realest Down South ones. On Wednesday, it cracked iTunes' Hip-Hop/Rap genre charts for the first time at No. 198, leaving the promising cut plenty of room to grow.